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from Chester tho I shall make an attempt to do so when I am more settled which I hope to be after tomorrow - but sleeping at one house & eating at another with drying my hair &c I have hitherto found only time to read Paines illeg Rights of Man which I never had read before. What say you to his attack on your favorite King William in the second part of his Rights of Man?

I wish also extremely to know what D^r. Warner says to the present state of the French Revolution? I see no news paper here regularly & our party is illeg so aristocratic (like most provincials) that I believe nothing I hear - they say I am a Democrat, & like Portia so father’d & so husbanded I certainly ought to be so yet more like my new favorite divine I confess I prefer love to politics & am therefore contented when I have liesure [sic] to retire to my bedchamber with the nouvelle Heloise which I brought with me from Derby. With love to Tom

I am your sincere E. Hayley